Enhancing drought monitoring and early warning by linking indicators to impacts

摘要: Monitoring and Early-Warning (M&EW) systems are crucial for reducing societal vulnerability to drought. While there a range of extant M&EW globally, such typically based on physical (hydro-climatic) indicators, they have rarely been linked societal or environmental impacts. This is the starting point the international, transdisciplinary project DrIVER (Drought Impacts Vulnerability thresholds in monitoring Early warning research). paper introduces project and presents early research highlights including review current capacities and knowledge gaps three continents, preliminary results indicator-to-impact analyses and an overview novel social learning framework being developed by project.